New Zealand, South Island October 2015

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The New Zealand Native Plant Garden, known from 1982 as the Ron Petrie New Zealand Plant Garden, after a former Director, has been in place since at least 1937 (then as the Jaquiery Native Plant Garden).
Sign
Something twiggy
Celmisia sp.
Sophora sp.
Anisotome sp.
cheers
fermi

[Peter Maguire]

Something twiggy

I have plants like that in the garden here! I refer to them by another name....... dead. 

Fascinating photos Fermi, with some great plants and planting combinations such as the Leptospermum/Lithodora. It's lovely to see sunshine and remind us in the northern hemisphere that summer is on the way - I hope.

Keep them coming.

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It is blow minding for me to see these gardens with Trilliums, Paris, Vancouveria and so on, growing together with NZ natives and many other more tender species!

How about this combo: Myosotidium hortensia and trilliums!
cheers
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[Maggi Young]

We've seen a few of those "twiggy" plants over the years from the SA threads -  maybe a Melicytus ? (twiggy/spiky)

 Agree with Peter though - here in our garden, twiggy  tends to mean dead! 

[Gabriela]

How about this combo: Myosotidium hortensia and trilliums!
cheers
fermi

Like you read my mind    Myosotidium is the one native that attracted my attention the most, fantastic foliage!

[GordonT]

Fermi, do you think your "something twiggy" could be a Corokia? maybe Corokia cotoneaster?

[t00lie]

Hello Fermi
I've really enjoyed your offerings and viewing such familiar gardens and vistas in a 'different light'.

Quite a bit has changed here since your visit with numerous Hellebores and others being uplifted from garden beds and planted in new areas along the driveway and at long last I can see some definition in those worked over areas ......  Now I wonder how long it will be before I'm tempted to fill in the gaps again ......

Your 'something twiggy ' is a Coprosma , probably C .acerosa.

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Thanks, Dave,
I was about to suggest we send you back to the scene to check
More NZ plants:
- A clematis growing up into a tree
- Kaka Beak - Clianthus sp (maybe C. puniceus)
cheers
fermi

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Rock Garden and gravelled areas,
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More from the Rock Garden at Queens Park,
cheers
fermi

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Pulsatillas
Jonquilla type Narcissus
Trilliums under deciduous azaleas
A very floriferous phlox (possibly P. subulata cultivar)
cheers
fermi